The Bald Explorer has a page on Facebook. Attached to this is the Bald Explorer Facebook Group with over 1200 members who post pictures of walks and places of interest sought out by them. To encourage more to join and post, and to highlight some of those wonderful photos and stories, Julia and I decided […]
A decade or so ago the Geocaching craze started to become widespread. Thanks to the proliferation of smart phones with their GPS capabilities the hobby is now simpler and even more fun. Geocaching is treasure hunt with millions of hidden troves or caches discreetly hidden all over the world. The fun is finding them and […]
This is the second part of the walk with lovely Julia that I have taken around the Ashurst area of West Sussex seeking out the changes in the countryside since 1977. My guide book was printed 41 years ago and although little has changed in that time, there are a few quirks along the way. […]
Taking an old 1977s guide book I am interested in observing the changes, if any, within the last 41 years in the rural landscape. The lovely Julia Hartley is with me to keep me on track and help to decipher differences from the text. We are in the countryside around the Ashurst area in West […]
The spooky location in today’s video is a churchyard with no church. I am joined by local historian Andrew Shaxson who explains the incredible and baffling history of St Peter’s church at Treyford in West Sussex. Little remains of the commodious Victorian edifice that was erected to replace three so-called ‘mean’ little churches. Although new […]
I am exploring the delightful Saxon church St Mary’s at Elsted in West Sussex. My guide is the ever enthusiastic local historian, Andrew Shaxson. Elsted is a village in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It lies within the civil parish of Elsted and Treyford. The village is on the Midhurst to South Harting […]